This is the repository of my wild thoughts, general comments and ideas that I don't have the time to actually work on.

2005-11-24

Python scopes, again

A friend drove my attention to the following links: this, and this. It seems that I'm not the only one annoyed by this misfeature. The second link is really worth reading as it describes the fundamental problem: operator = being used both for creating a new binding and mutating an existing one.